Broome Street, Manhattan: Grade B · 311, HPD & Crash Data
Grade B, 60 out of 100. How does Broome Street in Manhattan rank for traffic safety, noise, and cleanliness?
Livability score
Grade B, livability 60 out of 100.
Calm 44, ranked against built-up residential streets. Access 90, ranked against every street in the city. More complaints per home than most built-up residential streets, but a lot within a walk.
That puts Broome Street in the top 23% of scored streets citywide.
Strongest on infrastructure (71) and food nearby (98). Cleanliness (8) is the weak spot.
On the record
More 311 reports on Broome Street name residential noise than any other category, 232 of them, and cleanliness ranks 8 among built-up residential streets. Residential noise accounts for 16% of the 1,434 reports on file here. Illegal parking follows with 228 reports, and commercial noise with 208. The file runs across 87 distinct 311 categories in all. Divided by the homes on file, Broome Street carries roughly 52 reports per 100 of them.
HPD has cited 131 Class C violations here, the tier the city treats as an immediate health or safety risk, about 5 per 100 homes on file. HPD's most-cited category on Broome Street is pests, at 42 violations. Bed bugs follows at 38 violations, then heat and hot water at 22. The housing file lists 115 residential buildings on Broome Street holding 2,783 homes, with 51 walk-ups and 19 elevator buildings among them. That averages about 24 homes to a building.
Since 2021, 54 people have been injured in reported crashes here.
Among built-up residential streets, Broome Street ranks 66 on parking and 39 on quietness. That 39 on quietness puts Broome Street in the weaker half of built-up residential streets. Measured against built-up residential streets, housing sits at 43 and traffic safety at 42. Transit ranks 97 and tree cover 60, both against every street in the city rather than inside the band. Of the three measures ranked citywide, food nearby is the strongest on Broome Street, at 98. About 790 built-up residential streets make up the band Broome Street is scored inside.
Infrastructure is the strongest of the measures ranked inside the band, at 71.
21% of the 2,783 homes recorded on Broome Street are rent-stabilized, 571 homes in all.
Scores are built from 311 complaints, HPD violations, NYPD crash records, NYPD felony complaint records, MTA stop locations, DOHMH food permits, and the street tree census, divided by the homes and businesses on the street, updated weekly. Read the scoring method or the data sources.
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Broome Street runs through SoHo and Lower East Side, where every scored street in the neighborhood is ranked beside it.
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